# Yermie Cohen

> Yermie Cohen is the founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI stack for education that lets organizations build, launch, and scale custom learning and assessment content. A med student who arrived at UCLA from MIT with biology and mechanical-engineering degrees, he was buried in flashcards and frustrated by tools that were either too simple or too expensive, so he built his own. Memorang began as a free spaced-repetition study app in 2013 and has since become a platform pitched at publishers, institutions, and professional organizations who want to turn expertise into AI-driven courses, quizzes, and exams with humans kept in the loop.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Memorang
- **Organizations:** Memorang, Enki
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS in Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BS in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Doctor of Medicine (MD), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- **Known for:** Founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI-powered education and assessment platform, Earned two undergraduate degrees (Biology and Mechanical Engineering) from MIT plus an MD from UCLA, Built a free spaced-repetition study app used by students in higher education and the health sciences

## Career timeline

- **—** — Researcher with the Biomechatronics Group at the MIT Media Lab and in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) division
- **—** — Mechanical engineering consultant on a desalination project (joint venture between UCLA, Sea Recovery, and the US Navy)
- **—** — Researcher at the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT) and database researcher/lab manager at Wang Lab, UCLA
- **—** — Anatomy teaching assistant at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- **—** — Co-Founder & CEO of Enki
- **2013** — Co-founded Memorang (with George Courtsunis) as a free spaced-repetition study tool
- **2014** — Presented Memorang in NSF / MOOC education research contexts
- **2016** — Memorang raised seed funding
- **2017** — Featured on Rod's Pulse Podcast and Inside Higher Ed discussing study tools for health-sciences students
- **—** — Repositioned Memorang as an 'AI stack for education' for content creation and assessment at scale

## Achievements

- Founder and CEO of Memorang, an AI-powered education and assessment platform
- Earned two undergraduate degrees (Biology and Mechanical Engineering) from MIT plus an MD from UCLA
- Built a free spaced-repetition study app used by students in higher education and the health sciences
- Grew Memorang into a B2B platform serving publishers, institutions, and professional organizations
- Led Memorang to a SOC 2 Type II examination, signaling enterprise-grade security and privacy
- Invited speaker on AI in test development and credentialing security (PSI 'Tried and Tested' podcast)

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Positioned Memorang as an 'AI stack for education' and spoke publicly about using AI to streamline content creation and improve the relevance and security of test materials.

## Links

- Website: https://memorang.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yermie/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/memorangapp
- GitHub: https://github.com/yermie
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/memorangapp

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Last updated: 2026-06-20